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Kronen commented on FTX bankruptcy examiner's report [pdf] restructuring.ra.kroll.co... · Posted by u/wmf

>> Professional ethicists and moral philosophers do not, and generally do not claim to, act morally better than others.

That is a little like saying people who teach music don't claim to play an instrument very well. Universities are full of professors who can't do the thing they teach about very well. But I think we should be skeptical of people who study a thing they can't practice.

Kronen · 2 years ago

You didn't understand what he said at all and you are wrong. I ask you this... there are very different ethics and morals around the world, even many differences in ethics and morals between your home and your neighbors, so which ethics or morals should you have to be able to teach ethics and morals? The ones you have? lol

Kronen commented on 1919 cartoon depicting the use of a ‘pocket telephone’ vintag.es/2023/08/the-poc... · Posted by u/dxs

Brajeshwar · 3 years ago

It has been about 10-years ever since I divorced from almost all forms of notifications on all device types, and had almost always had the ringer to silenced. And I think it has been about 5-years ever since I default to DND and only selectively have a list with set number of people who can ring me.

It has angered quite a lot of people but has been a life-changer. I tend to either batch-call the missed ones or just ignore. Of course, there are calls that are scheduled.

I even have a website dedicated to that effort. Feel free to steal the idea - https://phone.wtf

Kronen · 3 years ago

Don't fool yourself, it didn't anger anyone; no one really cared

Kronen commented on Incumbents are fighting back against disrupters economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/ijidak

smt88 · 3 years ago

> Think Walmart vs Amazon. Online shopping is actually a completely different product.

This is actually a great example, but not the way you intended it.

Amazon isn't beating Walmart. They haven't even dented Walmart's revenue[1]. They're just killing everyone other than Walmart.

Walmart is now unbeatable because they're so big, they can demand wholesale prices that no one else can. If Walmart wants to buy 100M tomatoes from you, you'd sell them barely above cost because otherwise you're stuck with more tomatoes than you could ever sell.

To put it another way: you can't compete with these companies because they abuse their market power (either directly or through regulatory capture), not because they're actually that good at anything.

1. https://fourweekmba.com/amazon-vs-walmart/

Kronen · 3 years ago

You can't compare Walmart to Amazon, Walmart is a northamerican thing, Amazon is global. Walmart has zero influence in the prices of the tomatoes grown in Europe.

Kronen commented on Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen punctuationmatters.com/en... · Posted by u/MrVandemar

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS · 3 years ago

And to the one expressing that thought, you're right. To them, it's not important, and dumb.

You could argue, however, that they should refrain from posting, but they probably felt the need to share in case others felt the same way.

Kronen · 3 years ago

What about I don't care that you don't care?

Kronen commented on I’m taking some time away from Comma geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/ra7

Kronen · 3 years ago

> And even if you are an atheist, you probably still accept the bible is the closest thing we have to a human origin story.

wtf! what did he smoke?

Kronen commented on Switzerland moves ahead with underground autonomous cargo delivery spectrum.ieee.org/cargo-s... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

jillesvangurp · 4 years ago

Autonomous battery electrical vehicles on simple roads might be a lot cheaper, faster, simpler, and more flexible than either railway or this. This project has a high risk of being technically obsoleted by such a thing long before completion.

Kronen · 4 years ago

The main point is to get congestion out of roads and your solution is to increase congestion. Nice!

Kronen commented on We lost 54k GitHub stars httpie.io/blog/stardust... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

matsemann · 4 years ago

> “A bad workman always blames his tools.”

That's a meaningless statement, though, as it can always be used against anyone complaining about something. I mean, you yourself wrote this the other day:

> I had to work with SAP Hybris a year or two ago. My IDE was not smart enough. Well actually I spent a good number of days trying to configure my IDE to be able to work properly with Hybris. I failed. What a mess

Are you a bad workman blaming your tools? Or do some tools just genuinely have faults?

Kronen · 4 years ago

he said "I failed" not "the tool failed"

Kronen commented on Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences? floverfelt.org/posts/soft... · Posted by u/floverfelt

dmalik · 4 years ago

> How can Software Engineers call themselves engineers when there’s no rules, governing bodies, or anything to stipulate what true Software Engineering is?

We call ourselves software developers in Canada.

According to Canadian engineering[1]: The "practice of engineering" means any act of planning, designing, composing, evaluating, advising, reporting, directing or supervising, or managing any of the foregoing, that requires the application of engineering principles, and that concerns the safeguarding of life, health, property, economic interests, the public welfare, or the environment.

To be considered a work of engineering, then, that a piece of software (or a software-intensive system) must meet two conditions:

1. The development of the software has required “the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.”

2. There is a reasonable expectation that failure or inappropriate functioning of the system would result in harm to life, health, property, economic interests, the public welfare, or the environment

[1] - https://engineerscanada.ca/news-and-events/news/when-softwar...

Kronen · 4 years ago

The second condition is a bit stupid, most failures or inappropriate functioning of the system in software development can be considered a harm in economic interests...

Kronen commented on Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences? floverfelt.org/posts/soft... · Posted by u/floverfelt

dmalik · 4 years ago

> How can Software Engineers call themselves engineers when there’s no rules, governing bodies, or anything to stipulate what true Software Engineering is?

We call ourselves software developers in Canada.

According to Canadian engineering[1]: The "practice of engineering" means any act of planning, designing, composing, evaluating, advising, reporting, directing or supervising, or managing any of the foregoing, that requires the application of engineering principles, and that concerns the safeguarding of life, health, property, economic interests, the public welfare, or the environment.

To be considered a work of engineering, then, that a piece of software (or a software-intensive system) must meet two conditions:

1. The development of the software has required “the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software.”

2. There is a reasonable expectation that failure or inappropriate functioning of the system would result in harm to life, health, property, economic interests, the public welfare, or the environment

[1] - https://engineerscanada.ca/news-and-events/news/when-softwar...

Kronen · 4 years ago

We call Software Developers to coders and then, Consultant or Software Architect to the ones who design the systems. In between you have Analysts.

Any of them can be Software Engineers or not, because we call Software Engineers to the ones with the university career finished

Kronen commented on Are software engineering “best practices” just developer preferences? floverfelt.org/posts/soft... · Posted by u/floverfelt

Kronen · 4 years ago

> At the end of the day, you wind up in a lot of fairly pointless arguments about tech stack and coding conventions that 99.9% of the time don’t make a bit of difference to the final product.

99.9% of the time they do, maybe you don't see them functionally and visually, but probably you aren't measuring security flaws, performance and specially ease of maintenance which goes unnoticed most of the time...